devops
Cisco ACI and Apprenda PaaS Integration Goes to Production
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“No-Ops” for Developers and “No-Dev” for IT Ops Analysts agree that IT is in the midst of a major transformation. Based on the results of latest Gartner enterprise IT buying behavior survey, the majority of spending is going towards modernizing, functionally expanding or substituting long-standing business and office applications with cloud-based software-as-a-service. According to […]
Is your Network Ready? #CiscoDNA #CiscoChat
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Change is tough. True transformation is even tougher. Fortunately, Cisco DNA gives you the resources to navigate change and ensure success.
Bringing Consistent Automation Across Cisco Nexus and Catalyst with Ansible 2.1
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We had a busy week around the middle of July with ChefConf 2016 (Austin, Texas July 11 – 13) and Cisco Live US (Las Vegas, Nevada July 10 – 14). Now we’re moving on to AnsibleFest July 28 San Francisco where Cisco is a Gold sponsor as well as a Networking Hub sponsor. I guess […]
Transforming the Networking Industry Together
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A successful digital transformation requires a network transformation.
Chaos Monkey as a Service and other memorable moments at Velocity Conference
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Last week was quite eventful, certainly unpredictable and some would probably say chaotic. I am a big soccer fan, so with the Copa America and the Euro 2016 tournaments happening, I certainly could scratch that itch. And as always, it is more art than science to predict the results (Iceland winning over England anyone?) and […]
Developer Productivity, PaaS, Compliance, and Policy Driven Infrastructure
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If you are heading up an application develop team or are running an IT organization and you are looking at your developers initial steps to developing cloud native applications, I...
Yes Adopt DevOps But Don’t Forget The Pain of Re-Writes: My Biggest Software Lesson Ever
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As we deliver more and more software projects in my part of Cisco Services, I have a keen interest in software development best practices. And concerns on poor practices. A...
Bring Application Intent to Networking Containers
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Yesterday, Mike Cohen’s post Networking Containers: Policy Finally Comes of Age appeared on the Open Networking User Group blog site. He talks about the tremendous interest among application developers to use Linux containers to develop, deploy, and operate applications. Containers and microservices simplify complex application development into smaller, less risky software components with the benefits of portability and […]
Hybrid devops? Containerized microservices? What?
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I’m so glad I’m not a programmer. I mean, the money would be great, the constant job offers would be nice, and I suppose the freedom to show up to work wearing anything you want would be a bonus, but the actual programming? Ick. It seems awfully tedious. I can’t imagine the patience it would […]
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